Garment-supporter.



No. 7|o,292. Patented sept. so, |902. A. A. Munn.

GARMENT suPPoBTEn.

Oct. 19, 1901.)

` (Application l'ezl (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALMIRA A. MUDD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GARNlENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,292, datedSeptember 30, 1902.

Application filed October 19, 1901. Serial No. 79,281. (No model.)

To @ZZ wiz/0m, t may concern;

Be it known that I, ALMIRA A. MUDD, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certainnew andusefulV Improvements in Garment-Supporters; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact'de-v scription ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to garment-supporters; and its object is to providesimple, inexpensive, and effective means for supporting a skirt at thewaist and at the same time holding down the waist.

The construction of the device will be fully described hereinafter inconnection with the accompanying drawings, which form part of thisspecification, and its novel features will be dened inthe appendedclaim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of the devicecomplete. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the blank from which thesecuring-plate is formed; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the plateready for application to the belt, showing the inner side of the plate.

The reference-numeral l designates a belt preferably made of thin sheetmetal and provided with any suitable means for securing its overlappedends. I have shown openings 2 in one end of the belt to receive a headedpin 3, attached to the other end, in connection with a slide 4, as thesecuring means.

5 designates a thin imperforate plate of metal formed at its upper andlower-.edges with integral lugs 6, arranged in verticallyalined pairsand adapted to be bent inward to embrace the edges of the belt. Betweenthe lugs 6 the plate is formed with wedgeshaped prongs 7 and 8, whichproject, respectively, from the upper and lower edges of the plate. Saidprongs are so constructed as to decrease in size as they extendoutwardly from the plate and terminate in tapering pointed ends. Theprongs on the upper edge of the plate are made longer than those on thelower edge. The prongs are bent on opposite sides of the plate, midwaythe width of the same, to form hooks, the lower ones 8 of which areadapted to be connected to the waistband of a skirt. The upper hooks 7,owing to the length of thev prongs, as above stated, are of a largersize than the lower ones and have their curved portions arranged toextend above the plate, which facilitates the hook to be more readilyconnected to the waistband of the body of a garment.

The device supports the skirt, avoiding all sagging thereof, and at thesame time holds the waist down, thus combining in a single device whichmay be manufactured at small cost the functions of two independentarticles..

I claim- In a garment-supporter, the combination with a metallic belt,of an imperforate metallie plate having lugs on its upper and loweredges whichv are bent inwardly over the upper and lower edges of thebelt, and wedgeshaped prongs formed on the upper and lower edgesof theplate which decrease in size as they extend outwardly from the plate soas to terminate in tapering pointed ends, the prongs on the upper edgeof the plate being made longer than those on the lower edge, and saidprongs bent on opposite sides of the plate to points midway the width ofthe same to form hooks of different sizes, the curved bend of the upperlarger hooks being arranged to eX'- tend above the upper edge portion ofthe plate whereby to more readily facilitate the connection of saidlarger hooks with the waistband of a body of a garment, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALMIRA A. MUDD.

Witnesses:

D. A. DosENBAcH, J. EMIL DosnNBAcH.

